And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it.
Wynton MarsalisJazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
Wynton MarsalisI grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up on the self-esteem campaign. When you were lousy at something, they told you you were lousy, and they told you how to fix it.
Wynton MarsalisJazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.
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